A few paragraphs containing information and opinion that I had not heard before
Novak Djokovic’s dream of winning a 10th Australian Open crown and surging to the outright lead of men’s grand slam winners is in tatters as he fights for the right simply be allowed to stay Down Under for the year’s first major.
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As Victorian political journalist Paul Sakkal explained on the
No Challenges Remaining podcast: “They (Border Force officials) asked a series of questions about what documentation he had to prove that he had a Covid infection in the past six months, which doctors supported it and which other medical authorities were backing his claim.
“He only had one doctor supporting his claim and many of his documents had Tennis Australia letterhead on them. So he had very little – what you’d describe as original documentation – from practitioners around the world to substantiate his claim.”
Sakkal added: “It was unclear whether he actually had a laboratory result proving that he had Covid in the last six months.”
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Partner at Thomson Geer Lawyers, Justin Quill, told
Today on Friday: “I suspect what’s going to happen is – and I suspect not so much because he is going to win his case, but that it is going to be found that there needs (to be) more time, and he will be allowed to stay in the country, compete in the Australian Open, and then the lawyers will argue about this in the weeks and months to follow.
“It will be a bit of an irrelevant case at that stage, but I suspect that’s probably where we are going to land with this.
“The imposition on Djokovic not being allowed to compete is arguably greater than the imposition on the Minister for Home Affairs. So, I suspect the court is going to land there and say, ‘I’m going to allow you to stay in the country while we sort this out over the following weeks and months’.”